2,000 Worst Board Games of All Time: THE WORST
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Tom Vasel takes a look at 100 worst games of all time ranked on Board Game Geek!
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For whatever it’s worth, our young kids (4 and 2) love pop up pirate. But they never play it as an actual game, they just like sticking the sword in until the pirate pops.
What saddens me is this: walk into any toy store (geez, are there any left?) and half of these will be filling up the game aisle. Every kid in America will have a dozen of these or more in their closet. That has been true for the past 50 years. Growing up I kinda knew all of these were trash yet they were so iconic and available everywhere I thought I was missing something.
That’s also the reason they’re on this list though. People get upset about mediocre games being so ubiquitous and rank them worse then they maybe deserve. Don’t get me wrong, they aren’t good games but often some of them don’t deserve to be this low.
People gets tired of some games and many are know all over the world.
Many of them sell because they teach pre-K children core game play skills, like taking turns, drawing cards, rolling dice, etc. They're not bad games, they're training wheels for real games.
Kind of ironic the ‘worst’ board games are all well known classics, and all the ‘worst’ films and video games are usually almost unknown!
Fun fact: Here in Brazil there is a popular classic variation of Jacks, called 5 Maries, where it plays with 5 mini "cushions" filled with sand.
Twister, Battleship, Operation...c’mon man. These are not terrible games. In the right setting, they’re great fun. This list is very snobby.
Non-English games get fewer ratings. BGG adds Bayesian padding (believed to be N ratings of 5.5, where N is somewhere near 100 at least to start). Thus non-English games will tend much more toward a rating of 5.5. A rating of 5.5 gives a ranking of 16400. Non-English games definitely take a ratings hit.
CSI was ranked so low if I recall correctly because it had Asbestos as a component (for fingerprints)...
I looked this up and apparently that was a toy forensics kit, not the board game.
There is a VERY good use for chutes and ladders!
Have your kid roll 2 dice and add them together. Later on when they start to get good at adding roll 1 or two dice and have them add them to their current square to know where they are going instead of counting it out.
Eventually switch to ten sided dice. Lastly 20 sided dice.
Want to do subtraction? Just reverse the game. Roll 1 or two dice. Start at 100 and go down. Ladders you climb down and chutes you go up. I suppose you could do the opposite if you wanted.
So this game is great at teaching math. Using it and other games I had my oldest boy doing multiplication and division before kindergarten.
FYI the official rules of candyland now is to draw 2 cards and play one.
"We had a person die on turn 1 and I don't know why you would promote again like that". Didn't Zee fly to the sun on turn 1?
I had the Mad Magazine Game when I was a kid. It has the same element that Tom hates about Quelf. You draw cards which tell you to do dumb things that are supposed to be funny.
I had a copy too, think I played it once, maybe twice. I remember you're trying to lose all your money and doing silly things helped in that.
The one I remember was to stand up, flap your arms, and cluck like a chicken. I remember it because the card said "Lay an egg and lose $500" as flavor text, and my brother argued that it meant you had to lay an egg in order to lose the money.
I have Cthulhu Dice. It's another game that is useful for determining first player, but you absolutely could not make a game night out of it.
How can Buckaroo be in the 100ish worst? This was a great rainy day favourite for me & my friends, together with Kerplunk. As Gankatron 5000 rightly mentions below, BBG really isn't the place to rate children's games.
You can also say "SOOOOOOORRRRRRRY" in Ticket To Ride, when you cut off an opponent's obvious route. :-D
Oh, but then don't we have to bump their train off the board and send it back to their pile? "Soooorrrry." (This will be followed by bloodshed in my house. Most likely mine.)
@@elfboy745 Turning someone's +20 into a -20, you don't have to bump their trains off the board to make it a SOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYY :-D
Not a problem if you play with train stations...
The goose game is a classic game in the Netherlands (Ganzenbord). It's just roll and move, with some spaces where you have to skip a turn or other unfun events. Like Candyland without the cheery theme, or chutes and ladders without the back and forth excitement. I really hope nobody plays it anymore, but it's still being sold in stores.
By the way, I purposefully sought out Candyland to play with my kid (it's not a well-known game here). We play with the two card variant, and removed the treat cards from the draw deck. You now receive them when passing the matching space, and then you take them to the picnic at the end of the board (we have a Winnie the Pooh themed one). It's short and sweet, and makes my daughter very happy. I'm so surprised the rules have never been adapted, it's so easy to make it fun (for young kids).
It’s hilarious, I thought chutes and ladders was the lowest on the list, and I was about to type “Wait, what about tic-tac-toe??”
Mad Gab is not great, but no way is it THAT bad.
Every new years eve the wife and I go to a party and play Bunco with like 50 people in a basement. Really fun, but how often do you get 50 people in one room to play a game?
Alternate title: Criticising Games Made for Young Children
What dismays me more than classic bad games are the new ones being peddled on TV. The one where you don't step in plastic dog doo, or the game that accurately captures our kids needs of the day - where you pull boogers out of a plastic head and flap it at each other.
That tic tac toe variant with the grid of 9 games does indeed greatly improve the game. Recommended.
We had to make a blind labyrinth in school (can't see the ball), best woodwork I have ever done. Honestly was fun to make and play, unfortunately everyone made them so there was noone that wanted to try your handy work.
BGG is full of these "games" that have zero player decisions. They really ought to add a "0" to the weight scale: You are not really doing anything more than burning time when you play Chutes and Ladders, Bingo (without rewards) or LCR.
Candyland isn't make the list ?
Munchkin ? Boring as hell until late the last turn , then it's slightly less boring. Anybody ever play two games in a row ?
Tom's #1 game used to be Space Munchkin.
What do you mean? He covered Candyland when he reached it. Look at 1:03:35
55:16 Taking into account how old Oregon Trail (video game) is, it's amazing and very much ahead of its time. It was released in 1971.
I think he was specifically talking about how bad the card game is, not the original computer game.
@@LegoAssassin098 He said: "I know there's nostalgia for the Oregon Trail but even that's not a good game. It's educational but not good." I think he was clearly referring to the computer game here.
I had a lot of these growing up. I guess my parents knew nothing about board games :)
they bought what was on the shelf
Wow some of these games unlocked memories I forgot about from when I was a kid. Cooties, Hiho cherry, don't spill the beans.
Tom keeps saying "This is not a good game..."
Isn't that kind of the point here?
42:40 Afrikan tähti! It's a crappy game but nostalgic to many and very well known here in Finland. It's still being sold here! I guess there are people who consider the theme problematic but it's still in the stores.
I love shut the box! It's a fun little gambling game and there is some strategy in regards to choosing which numbers to flip based on probabilities. I've never thought of it as a boardgame, though.
I have played Candy Land and enjoyed it, because it gave child joy. Mechanically, it's just snakes and ladders reskinned in order to allow play as long as you can handle colors. On that score, it shows a modest bit of cleverness, but still rehashes a tiresome game. BUT! But it also changes the theme into a magical land made of candy, which has fired the imaginations of generations of children. It has succeeded through its theme, and I would therefore argue that Candyland is the greatest Ameritrash game of all time.
I loved the Quidditch card game when I was a kid :( Seems like I have to try it once again
I remember it fondly as well but I was quite young so would be curious how it felt now.
Thank you so much for these series Tom, 10.000 and bellow and the 2.000 worst games. I believe this must have been a pain at some point, and this marathon this week took a lot of work.
But I laugh a lot with you and I also went into a memory lane with some of these games that I completely forgot I used to have them as a kid. So yeah, than you for making this effort!!
Scrabble Slam is actually pretty good.
My daughter loved Elefun.
When I was about 12, my parents got really involved in the church and in marriage counseling groups and they decided we needed more "family time". So once a week they'd make us come in from hanging out with out friends to play The Ungame. It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience. It led to more than one argument. Hoo boy, that was a good idea. TERRIBLE game. In that category of "is this really a game?". But even if it was an 8.5, forcing your kids to play a game they absolutely don't want to be playing to try to engineer togetherness is just a bad strategy overall.
You're being generous giving Quelf a 2. I played it once and lost with a negative score because I refused to be bullied into being an idiot.
If I didn’t know where you were from the comment ‘I’ve not seen this one’ about Buckaroo would 100% rule you out of being from the UK. Everyone had this game when I was growing up.
Penguin Party is an awesome game.
Yes! We play it all the time. Total proof that the genius Knizia can go small and still be brilliant.
Hmmm....based on the games of my childhood, my parents have a lot of apologizing to do. If they had any sense of honor or decency, they would immediately smash their "World's Greatest Mom/Dad" coffee mugs, then walk across them in their bare feet!
I enjoyed this whole series, thanks Tom!
Great video.
I can't believe I heard tom say pog
Game of Life worse than Monopoly? GTFO that's insanity. Monop[oly is barely a game. That's like saying Talisman is a game when it's just reskinned monopoly. ugh
I can't believe that Race for the Galaxy isn't on this list.